What’s going on in Iran is pretty amazing, to see people demanding a liberalization (not in the American liberal sense) of their government, truly open elections- willing to risk getting bloodied or even killed, and that if these protests are brought under government control, they will certainly be hunted down (or at least the ringleaders).
Counter that with the America that is content with what’s here, willing to give up as much freedom as it takes to get a false sense of security, with our President and his administration chipping away at our freedoms daily, seeking more involvement each day.
This is the guy that went to Egypt to suck up to an entire faith using sweet talk that avoided the truth about that faith’s dealings with other faiths (Egypt’s culling of Christians’ hog herds for no science-based reason, for a recent example) and treatment of women as subhumans. It was another part of the American Apology tour, which culminated in him demanding voluntary shrinkage of the one real (already small) democracy in the region. He is not an unintelligent man, so he must know that the very folks he seeks to gain buy-in from will not happily accept a Jewish state, but will gladly take whatever concessions they can get in exchange for promises- promises which have been broken in the past, and will be again.
Now during the uprising in Iran, his timid statement about not wanting to meddle sure gives “hope” to them, doesn’t it? I’m well aware of the CIA (OSS?) meddling that took place in 1953, but it’s important to take the context of the cold war into play when dealing with that piece of history. But we can’t expect that from someone who’s ok with moral relativism in some sectors, can we? Not when it places facts behind actions that are inconvenient to the critical theory on the USA that the left (with some help from the former Soviet Union, by the way).
Can we not even say “we’re not meddling with Iranian affairs the way that they murdered our soldiers in Iraq?” Are we too timid?
If the Iranians were somehow to ditch the mullahs, wouldn’t a democratic Iran, free from the “Death To America, Death to Israel” prayer sessions be better off? Freedom isn’t on the march any more, it’s taking a breather.
This is why the issues with Barack Obama’s beliefs about America were and are so important. His inability to speak for the best of the United States of America as our figurehead and the shame he seems to feel (paralleling his minister’s “Chickens Coming Home to Roost” sermon) about the United States (i.e. we deserve the hate of other nations) defines his leadership. There were numerous examples of this (bitter clingers) throughout the campaign, which were dismissed by the media, and now here we are.
As the Pravda article stated before, the cold war efforts of the USSR and allies could not have been more effective in destroying the USA from within. Ask yourself: is it good leadership to remind your team of their weaknesses constantly?
A lot of the foreign enemies of American freedom are chess players. Obama is not a chess player (meant in the figurative, I have no idea if he plays). They’re already thinking a few plays ahead, and we’re navel gazing.